Envisioning the garden
Subtitle: line, scale, distance, form, color, and meaning
By: Robert Mallet ; translation by Bryan Woy; drawings by Yves Poinsot .
Contributors: Poinsot, Yves
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9780393733426
Subjects: Landscape architecture; Design; Gardens
Work titles: Optique des jardins
Description: Mallet shows how the basic elements of design-- line, scale, distance, shape, color, and other sensory associations-- can open the viewer's outlook toward board perspectives or, conversely, can lock us up in a cage.
Notes: Originally published in French as: L'Optique des jardins: elargir l'espace, libérer l'esprit.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Lines and punctuation; title: Relative scale; title: Distance; title: Forms, textures, and lighting; title: Colors; title: The other senses in action; title: The search for a meaning.